Employment

James Clappison: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many and what proportion of  (a) UK nationals,  (b) people born in the UK,  (c) foreign nationals,  (d) non-UK EU nationals,  (e) EU A8 nationals and  (f) non-EU nationals of working age in the UK were in employment in the fourth quarter of 2008.

Kevin Brennan: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
	 Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 23 February 2009:
	As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking how many and what proportion of (a) UK nationals, (b) people born in the UK, (c) foreign nationals, (d) non-UK EU nationals, (e) EU A8 nationals and (f) non-EU nationals of working age in the UK were in employment in the fourth quarter of 2008. (254174)
	The information requested is shown in the attached table. The estimates are derived from the Labour Force Survey. As with any sample survey, estimates from the LFS are subject to a margin of uncertainty.
	The figures in the table are derived from the LFS microdata which are weighted using the official population estimates published in autumn 2007. They are not entirely consistent with the figures published in the monthly Labour Market Statistics First Release, or the migrant worker figures published every quarter, which are weighted using more up-to-date population estimates.
	
		
			  Employment levels and rates for working age( 1)  people, by nationality and country of birth three months ending December 2008: United Kingdom, not seasonally adjusted 
			  Thousands and percentage 
			   UK nationals  UK born  Non-UK nationals( 2)  Non-UK EU nationals  EU A8 nationals( 3)  Non-EU nationals 
			   No.  Rate (%)  No.  Rate (%)  No.  Rate (%)  No.  Rate (%)  No.  Rate (%)  No.  Rate (%) 
			 2008 Q4(4) *25,749 75 *24,372 75 *2,342 09 *1,052 77 **470 81 *1,290 63 
			 (1) Men aged 16-64 and women aged 16-59. (2) Excludes those whose nationality was not known. (3) EU A8 comprises Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. (4 )Coefficients of Variation have been calculated as an indication of the quality of the estimates, as described below:  Guide to Quality: The Coefficient of Variation (CV) indicates the quality of an estimate, the smaller the CV value the higher the quality. The true value is likely to lie within +/- twice the CV - for example, for an estimate of 200 with a CV of 5 per cent. we would expect the population total to be within the range 180-220.  Key Coefficient of Variation (CV) (%) Statistical robustness  * 0 = CV <5 Estimates are considered precise. ** 5 = CV <10 Estimates are considered reasonably precise. *** 10 = CV <20 Estimates are considered acceptable. **** CV = 20 Estimates are considered too unreliable for practical purposes. It should be noted that the above estimates exclude people in most types of communal establishment (e.g. hotels, boarding houses, hostels, mobile home sites etc).  Source: Labour Force Survey